Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.
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Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.
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The Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.
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This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.
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I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
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I'll always be a fan of ol' stray dogs and guitars playin'.One room churches, back road walks and front porch swingin'.Sunset skies, bonfire nights, I love the simple things.That's how I'll always be.
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I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.
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Rock was born in the South, so saying 'Southern rock' is like saying 'rock rock.'
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Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
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To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous.
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It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
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I think movies are overdeveloped in Hollywood. There's a big benefit to not overdeveloping and not being so precious about what you're doing. I think you lose a kind of vitality if you develop something into the ground.
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What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
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Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
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No llora quien no encuentra uns fuente donde verter su llanto.
